If THAT is what you call restoration (cutting yet another hole in the wall) or if THAT Is what you all a bluestone wall, then I am a green tree frog. Stupid News.com reporters with no clue what bluestone is!

They were dismantling the pedestrian bridge over Flinders Street West today. The core is well above Collins Street bridge now, but the little balcony view, beside the Lantern Building, has been partially obscured by mesh, so not so easy for closeups.

Lendlease’s Melbourne Quarter development is on the verge of winning two new blue-chip tenants, with power retailer EnergyAustralia and financial services giant AMP firming as candidates to move into the Docklands project.

The city’s leasing market was yesterday abuzz with reports that EnergyAustralia was poised to take a major slab of space in Two Melbourne Quarter, at 697 Collins Street, the final office tower in the development.

Lendlease lodged plans for the 25-level tower in June so any move would be some years away but would be a key precommitment to allow the building to get under way.

EnergyAustralia and the developer declined to comment, but a deal would be another marker for Melbourne’s rising office leasing market.

A series of developers — including Mirvac, Brookfield, Charter Hall, Cbus Properties, ISPT and QIC Global Real Estate — have towers under way across Melbourne and are vying for tenants.

But companies have been drawn to the Lendlease urban regeneration precinct that is set to transform the overall area into a new $2.5 billion office, residential and retail project. Once complete, Melbourne Quarter will include seven commercial and residential buildings.

The Woods Bagot-designed Two Melbourne Quarter is set to have about 49,000sq m of office space and about 800sq m of retail space.

One drawcard for the energy giant may be the opportunity to consolidate its multiple sites around Melbourne and bring its staff into one building.

The building’s plan for a six-star Green Star rating and five-star NABERS energy rating could also be an attraction.

Meanwhile, AMP is looking at space in One Melbourne Quarter, which is filling fast. Lendlease won design and engineering firm Arup as the first tenant at that tower in late 2015.

That 25,000sq m next-generation office building was sold to Lendlease-managed fund, APPF Commercial, for more than $250m last year.

Attention will now turn to the 28-storey Melbourne Quarter Tower, the $550m tower billed as the project’s centrepiece.

It will span 55,000sq m and is targeting tenants after campus-style floor plates.

Well above the Collins Street bridge now. There was equipment operating near the corner of Flinders and Wurundjeri Way (the resi towers end of the site), but I didn't get down to see what they were doing.